For former locals, life in Boston comes to temporary stop

6:25 PM,
Apr. 19, 2013

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On Friday, the normal and sometimes fast-paced rhythm of life for former Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area residents now living in Boston didn't slow. It stopped.

"You get used to hearing and feeling the trains go back and forth all day," says Patrick Byrne, an alumnus of Miami University, now lives in the Boston suburb of Dedham. "With the rail shut down, the silence reminds you of what's going on in the city."

Byrne lives outside the lockdown zone set up by police, as they tried to catch the second suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings. He said that the biggest affect of him was the ...